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Midterm Study Guide Ch.3-5 Flashcards

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Who were the Pennsylvania Dutch?

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German

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Why did the middle colonies and the South lagged behind New England in education?

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Because they spread out,far away from nearest school.(the population was scattered in rural areas.)

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3
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What was the best access to the backcountry?

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Great Wagon Road

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Who were settlers from Ulster?

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Scots-Irish

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What were dame school?

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Village school in New England

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What new technique did Cotton Mather use against smallpox?

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Inoculation

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What city established the first public library in America?

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Charleston,Carolina

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What were the two largest non-English groups in America?

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Scots-Irish and the German

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Growing rice was common in which regiona.

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The South

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Scots-Irish and German settlers mostly occupied which territory?

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Backcountry

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Why did the Puritans emphasized education for their children?

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Because they wanted children to study the Bible

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12
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Where did the”colonial style”of architecture originate?

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Tudor England

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What was the main reason the Scots-Irish and Germans came to America?

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They wanted to escape religious intolerance.

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Why were epidemics more common in the eighteenth-century colonies?

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Because crowed cities helped to spread diseases.

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Why did woman in America married earlier than woman in europe?

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Because there were more men than woman

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What was another name for Baptist German settlers?

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Dunkers

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17
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Did America’s population increased tenfold during the eighteenth century?

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True

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18
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What was the paddle-shaped board for reading?

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Hornbook

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19
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Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac?

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Benjamin Franklin

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What was the standard text in the colonial period?

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New England Primer

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What was the most important denomination in the South?

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Anglican

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Which group rejected modern ways and desired little contact w/outsiders?

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Anabaptists

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Who was known as the Father of American Presbyterianism?

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Francis Makemie

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What was the most influential religious movement in colonial America?

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Puritanism

25
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What sect was centered in the colony of Pennsylvania?

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Quakers

26
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Who believed that believers should leave the Church of England altogether?

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Separatists

27
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Who missionary to the Indians who wrote an inspirational journal?

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David Brainerd

28
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What conservative branch of the Mennonites practiced strict church discipline?

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Amish

29
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Who was known as Father of American Lutheranism?

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Henry Mühlenberg

30
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What group became known as Congregationalists?

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Puritans

31
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What issue in their beliefs distinguished the Congregationalists from the Baptists?

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Baptism

32
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Where did most American Lutherans come from?

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Germany

33
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Describe the provisions of the Half-way Covenant.

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The Half-Way Covenant was parents who were not baptized to have their children baptized.The result of the Half-Way covenant is they want to served only to increase the number of unregenerate church member.

34
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List five results of the Great Awakening

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1) number of religious college increase.
2) The Great Awakening brought division to America’s church
3) The Anglican church was powerful,especially in the Southern colonies.
4) in greater freedom of warship to colonists.
5) all laymen began to share equally in the rule of the church.

35
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Who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

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Jonathan Edwards

36
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Who was minister to the Algonquin Indians?

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John Eliot

37
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They were a doctrinally sound group that wanted to keep the old ceremonies of the Church of England

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Low-church Anglicans

38
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Who took religion and education to the “Overmountain” people?

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Samuel Doak

39
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He was a Presbyterian graduate of the Log College who aided the Great Awakening

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Gilbert Tennent

40
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He was a Presbyterian minister who helped bring revival to Virginia

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Samuel Davies

41
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What did the French call the territory they claimed along the Mississippi River?

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Louisiana

42
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What important fort did the French build at the Forks of the Ohio River at the out

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Fort Dequesne

43
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Why did the Iroquois ally w/the British?

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Because the Iroquois’ enemy had joined the French.

44
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What geographic feature was at the heart of the Louisiana Territory?

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Missisippi

45
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What “world war” brought an end to French power in New World?

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French and Indian war

46
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Why was the Battle of the Plains of Abraham important?

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Because the British captured the French Canadian Capital

47
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What peace treaty brought an end to the French and Indian War

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Treaty of Paris

48
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What event sparked the French and Indian War

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A force commanded by George Washington clashed w/the French near the Forks of the Ohio River

49
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With the Treaty of Utrecht,Britain gained territory of what regions?

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Eastern Canada
The West Indies and
Gibraltar

50
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During what infamous incident did British redcoats kill five unarmed Patriots in1770?

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Boston Massacre

51
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Why did Nationalism grow in the American colonies?

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1) the colonies were isolated from the help of Britain.
2) Private ownership of land gave Americans a stake in their society.
3) the colonies were accustomed to self-government.

52
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What was Britain’s chief disadvantage during the French and Indian War

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Lack of colonial unity

53
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Who were the Acadians?

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French settlers who were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia

54
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Who was the British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces?

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Edward Braddock

55
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Why was French a threat to the thirteen colonies?

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1) France’s strong alliances w/the Indians
2) the British difficulty in defending its scattered settlements.
3) the failure of the colonies to present a united front.

56
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Why was Franklin’s Albany Plan a failure?

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The colonists feared centralized government.

57
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Who was French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi River?

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Louis Joliet

58
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Describe William Pitt’s plan to win the French and Indian War

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1) let Prussia bear the brunt in fighting in Europe.
2) use British navy to isolate the colony
3) replace old,incompetent commander w/young.

59
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What law requirement that salaries,taxes,and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials?

A

Power of the purse

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